马克吐温 中英文介绍

At school he disobeys his teacher and always busies himself with outside matters at the lessons. Tom’s bosom friend is Huck Finn, a boy deserted by his drunkard of a father and looked upon as an outcast in the town.
Works
T w a in ’s g re a te s t fa m e a n d h is im p o rta n c e in A m e ric a n lite ra tu re re s t la rg e ly o n h is tw o b e s t k n o w n n o v e ls , T he A dve nture s of T om S a w ye r 《汤姆· 索亚历险记 》 T he A dve nture s of H uckle be rry F inn 《哈克费恩历险记 》
local colour
drew from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places
tall tales (highly exaggerated)
WRITING FEATURES OF MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain is famous for his humor and satire. Mark Twain’s humor is based on the humor of the Western in America He often described persons who was innocent, simple, naive, and ignorant as his heroes or heroines. He used the artistic style of hyperbole on the basis of the western traditional humor and made his writing full of allegories that lay behind the humor.
5) The Prince And The Pauper (1882) 《王子与贫儿》 6) Life On The Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河的生 活》 7) A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court (1889) 《在亚瑟王朝的康涅狄克州的美国佬》 8) A Million-Pound Note (1893) 《百万英镑》 9) Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) 《傻瓜威尔逊》 10) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) 《败坏哈德莱堡的人》 11) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) 《神秘的陌生人》
出生于密西西比河畔小城汉尼 拔的一个乡村贫穷律师家庭， 从小出外拜师学徒。当过排字 工人，密西西比河水手、南军 士兵，还经营过木材业、矿业 和出版业，晚年巡回演讲，但 有效的工作是当记者和写作幽 默文学。
A master of language
He used colloquial language, vernacular language, dialects
MARK TWAIN’S MASTERPIECES
OTHER WORKS BY MARK TWAIN
1) “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865) 《加拉维加县有名 的跳蛙》 his first sketch that brought him fame and success.
《汤姆· 索亚历险记》
5) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
A story written for boys, full of the horror and joys of childhood flowing on the surface of experience. Generations after generations of young people have held it dear to their hearts. Tom Sawyer is sure to be studied in American schools as The Declaration of Independence.
MAIN CHARACTER
Tom
角)汤姆· 索亚 Huckleberry Finn: the town’s pariah(被 社会遗弃者)哈克贝利· 费恩 Aunt Polly: Tom’s aunt and guardian
波莉姨妈
Sid
Sawyer: the young protagonist(主
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人物简介
虽然马克· 吐温的财富不多，却无损 他高超的幽默、机智与名气，被称 为美国最知名人士之一，被誉为 “美国文学之父”擅长写讽刺小说。 其交友甚是广泛，迪士尼、魏伟德、 尼古拉· 特斯拉、海伦· 凯勒、亨 利· 罗杰诸君，皆为其友。他曾被誉 为美国文学史上的林肯。海伦· 凯勒 曾言：“我喜欢马克· 吐温——谁会 不喜欢他呢？即使是上帝，亦会钟 爱他，赋予其智慧，并于其心灵里 绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。”威 廉· 福克纳称他为“第一位真正的美 国作家，我们都是继承他而来”。 他于1910年4月21日去世，享年七 十五岁，安葬于纽约州艾玛拉。
2) Innocents Abroad (1869) 《傻瓜出国记》 The book version of his travel sketches about Middle East, Europe, etc.
3) The (1873)
Gilded Age
4）A Tramp Abroad (1880) Another book of humor and travel observations in the vein of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It.
Another night, the boys went out to dig for hidden treasures near a deserted house three miles from town. There they almost fall into the hands of the murderer who accidentally finds a box filled with gold coins. Shortly after the incident Tom goes to a picnic with a party of schoolmates. Exploring a cave, he gets lost with Becky Thatcher, the daughter of the Judge. Tom behaves like a brave boy, calms Becky’s fears and finds the way out of the cave. In a few days’ time Tom and Huck return to the cave. They find the dead body of the murderer, who could not have found the way out of the cave and also the hidden treasures.
But
Tom has read many books and wants to make his life just as bright as it is depicted in the stories. He devises games in which the boys play the role of brave outlaws and warlike Red Indians who are the terror of the rich and the oppressors. One night the boys involuntarily witness the murder of Dr. Robinson. An innocent man is charged with the crime. But on the day of the trial Tom fearlessly exposes the real criminal the Indian Joe who escapes through an open window of the courtroom.
short words concrete
sentence and structure
direct in effect
simple, even ungrammatical
MARK TWAIN’S WRITING FEATURES
represented social life through portraits of local places which he knew best
作品简介
《汤姆· 索亚历险记》是美国著名小说家马
克· 吐温的代表作，发表于1876年。小说主人 公汤姆· 索亚天真活泼，富于幻想和冒险，不 堪忍受束缚个性，枯燥乏味的生活，幻想干 一番英雄事业。小说通过主人公的冒险经历， 对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪 式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判， 以欢快的笔调描写了少年儿童自由活泼的心 灵。《汤姆· 索亚历险记》以其浓厚的深具地 方特色的幽默和对人物敏锐观察，一跃成为 最伟大的儿童文学作品，也是一首美国“黄 金时代”的田园牧歌。本书的姊妹篇是《哈 克贝利· 费恩历险记》



STYLE
His
earlier works are light, humorous and optimistic. His later works become darker and more obscure, showing his discontent and disappointment toward the social reality. His last works shows his acute pessimism, despair, skepticism determinism. Simple and plain diction, precise, direct.
EARLY LIFE EXPERIENCE
Born
in a little town in Mississippi At 11, he lost his father At 13, he stopped schooling Tramp printer Steamboat pilot on the Mississippi Confederate guerrilla Prospector Reporter on the far western frontier Traveler abroad
Sawyer: Tom’s half-brother希德 Mary: Tom’s elder cousin玛丽 Becky Thatcher: a cute girl that wins Tom’s affection贝琪· 萨切尔
A BRIEF OUTLINE OF TOM SAWYER
马克· 吐温 MARK TWAIN
马克· 吐温（Mark Twain,1835年11月30日 －1910年4月21日）,原名萨缪尔· 兰亨· 克莱 门 （Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 是美 国的幽默大师、小说家、作家，也是著名演 说家，19世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出 代表。2006年，沃伦被美国的权威期刊《大 西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物之一 （名列第16位）。
Tom lives with his younger brother Sid and Aunt Polly in St. Petersburg, a remote town on the banks of the Mississippi river. While his brother Sid is a “model” boy, Tom is quite the opposite of his brother.